{"id":30,"date":"2014-08-21T04:17:35","date_gmt":"2014-08-21T04:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pensouls.com\/?p=30"},"modified":"2014-08-21T04:17:35","modified_gmt":"2014-08-21T04:17:35","slug":"shadows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.pensouls.com\/?p=30","title":{"rendered":"shadows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The sky was a jealous mix<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>of sapphire and delicate white,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The wind tossed the leaves<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>in an angry dance upon the concrete.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>As I reach down<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>to pick a perfect tulip &#8211; \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A shrill scream breaches the immobile silence.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I groan and reach for my alarm clock,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>My hand skims the uneven surface of my nightstand &#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>two inches back, four to the left<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>third button on the top<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>same routine.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I press it and the room is silent.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I lay there with a vacant look<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>My thoughts back in dreamland<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I sigh and sit up<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>and grab my cane,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>It\u2019s eight in the morning<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>the sun most likely shining bright<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I rub my scarred eyes gently<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>For me, there\u2019s only darkness.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sky was a jealous mix of sapphire and delicate white, The wind tossed the leaves in an angry dance upon the concrete. As I reach down to pick a perfect tulip &#8211; \u00a0 A shrill scream breaches the immobile silence. \u00a0 I groan and reach for my alarm clock, My hand skims the uneven [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pensouls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pensouls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pensouls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pensouls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pensouls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.pensouls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31,"href":"http:\/\/www.pensouls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions\/31"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pensouls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pensouls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pensouls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}